| Hermann Lotze: An Intellectual Biography Contributor(s): Woodward, William R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1139027417 ISBN-13: 9781139027410 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $140.25 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: June 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Science | History - Psychology | History |
| Dewey: 193 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As a philosopher, psychologist, and physician, the German thinker Hermann Lotze (1817-1881) defies classification. Working in the mid-nineteenth-century era of programmatic realism, he critically reviewed and rearranged theories and concepts in books on pathology, physiology, medical psychology, anthropology, history, aesthetics, metaphysics, logic, and religion. Leading anatomists and physiologists reworked his hypotheses about the central and autonomic nervous systems. Dozens of fin-de-si cle philosophical contemporaries emulated him, yet often without acknowledgment, precisely because he had made conjecture and refutation into a method. In spite of Lotze's status as a pivotal figure in nineteenth-century intellectual thought, no complete treatment of his work exists, and certainly no effort to take account of the feminist secondary literature. Hermann Lotze: An Intellectual Biography is the first full-length historical study of Lotze's intellectual origins, scientific community, institutional context, and worldwide reception. |
Contributor Bio(s): Woodward, William R.: - William R. Woodward is a Professor of Psychology at the University of New Hampshire. |